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Constitution 



SOCIETY OF ALUMNI 



GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. 



Constitution 



SOCIETY OF ALUMNI 



OF 



Georgetown College. 



SOCIETY OF ALUMXI. 



OFFICERS. 

\Y. \Y. Corcoran, President. 

Hon. Francis Kernan. U. S. S.. ist Vice President. 

R. T. Merrick, 2d Vice President. 

John F. Hanna. Secret 

Rev. P. F. Healy. S. J., Treasurer. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

Rev. P. F. Healy., S. J., (ex-op 

F. B. P. Sands. 

G. Ernest Hamilton. 
S. Chapman Xeale. 
George L. Magruder, Iff. D. 






PREAMBLE. 



Whereas it is meet that students should cherish to- 
wards the College in which they have been educated 
sentiments of sincere gratitude and an affectionate in- 
terest in its welfare and progress; and 

Whereas the best expression of these sentiments is 
the desire and effort on our part to obtain for our Alma 
Mater greater educational facilities and a larger con- 
course of students ; and 

Whereas emulation in so laudable a cause, while 
furthering the end proposed, will draw more closely the 
bonds of fellowship between us — 

Resolved That we, the Alumni of Georgetown College, 
do organize ourselves into a Society for the purposes be- 
fore recited, and adopt for its government the following 
Constitution. 



CONSTITUTION. 



ARTICLE I. 
This Society shall be called the "Society of Alumni 
of Georgetown College." ■ 

ARTICLE II. 

All persons who have, at any time, been students of 
Georgetown College, or who have received degrees there- 
from, or who are warn or have been connected with it as 
professors or masters, are eligible to membership in this 
Society. 

ARTICLE III. 

The object of this Society shall be to perpetuate and 
strengthen college friendships, to collect and preserve 
materials for college history, but above all to promote 
the interests of Georgetown College by calling attention 
to its advantages as a school of learning, by endeavoring 
to secure for it the most favorable legislation, by seeking 
to obtain for it donations and endowments, and by con- 
tributing and procuring for it such material aid as may 
enable its Faculty to liquidate the debt already incurred 
by the erection of a new building, and thereafter to carry 
out successfully their plans for enlarging its curriculum 
and placing it on an equal footing with other and more 
favored institutions. 



ARTICLE IV. 

The officers of the Society shall be a President, a First 
Vice President, a Second Vice President, a Secretary and 
a Treasurer, the last named to be selected from the 
Academical Faculty. There shall also be an Executive 
Committee consisting of five members, of which the 
Treasurer shall be a member, ex officio. These officers 
and members shall be elected biennially at the regular 
meetings of the Society, and shall hold office until the 
election of their successors. Of the four members so to 
be elected, one shall be chosen from the Medical Depart- 
ment, one from the Law Department, and two from the 
Academical Department of the College, and whenever 
vacancies shall occur, they shall be always supplied from 
the Department to which the member belonged whose 
place shall have become vacant. Moreover, the Execu- 
tive Committee shall have power to fill all vacancies oc- 
curring during the biennium, and the officers so elected 
shall hold office until their successors are appointed at 
the next ensuing election. 



ARTICLE V. 

A regular meeting of the Society shall be held each 
year at the College, upon such day and such hour, near 
the close of the session, as may be fixed upon by the 
Secretary upon consultation with the Dean of the Faculty; 
but a special meeting may be held at any time upon the 
call of the acting President of the Society. 



ARTICLE VI. 

At the regular annual meeting of this Society any num- 
ber of members who may attend shall constitute a quorum 
for all purposes ; but at any other meeting it shall require 
not less than thirty members, of whom ten at least are not 
at the time residents of the District of Columbia, to con- 
stitute a quorum for business; and adjournments may be 
had from time to time for the purpose of procuring the 
attendance of others. 

ARTICLE VII. 

All elections for officers shall be on nomination and 
viva voce, unless more than one person shall be in nom- 
ination for the same office, in which case the vote shall 
be taken by ballot, and in all cases a majority of votes 
cast shall be necessary to a choice. 

ARTICLE VIII. 

The President shall preside at the meetings, preserve 
order and decorum in debate, give a casting vote when 
necessary, and perform all the other duties that custom 
and parliamentary usage may require. 

ARTICLE IX. 
In the absence of the President, or at his request, all 
the duties of the President shall devolve upon the Vice 
Presidents successively. 

ARTICLE X. 
It shall be the duty of the Secretary to make a perma- 
nent record of the names of all the members of the So- 



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ciety, showing the date of their membership and the post- 
office address, and prepare a column in which may be 
noted the death of any member and the date thereof; to 
keep a fair record of all the proceedings of the Society in 
a bound volume to be furnished for that purpose ; to read 
the same at the next meeting, subject to any needed cor- 
rection; to send by mail to each member elect, immedi- 
ately after the annual meeting, a printed circular inform- 
ing him of his election and the terms of membership ; to 
give sufficient notice through the newspapers of the 
time of the annual meeting, and generally to conduct the 
correspondence of the Society and preserve its records. 

ARTICLE XI. 
It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to furnish to the 
Secretary the name and address of each member elect who 
has paid his initiation fee ; to receive and safely keep all 
funds of the Society ; to disburse the same as directed by 
the Society ; to keep a fair account of his receipts and 
expenditures in a book furnished for that purpose, and to 
make a full report of the same, in writing, to the Society 
each year, which he shall file with the Secretary for safe 
keeping. 

ARTICLE XII. 
The Executive Committee shall have the general man- 
agement of the affairs of the wSociety. They shall present 
business for the action of the wSociety, regulate the order 
of proceeding, nominate the candidates for office, propose 
the names of applicants for membership, fix the time and 
place of their own meetings, and make such regulations, 



not inconsistent with the Constitution as shall be neces- 
sary for the maintenance of order in the conduct of 
affairs. 

ARTICLE XIII. 

All elections for members shall be on nomination and 
vive voce, unless a ballot be called for by any member 
present, and then six negative ballots shall be sufficient to 
reject. 

ARTICLE XIV. 

No member shall be entitled to the privileges of the 
Society until he shall have paid the initiation fee of 
$10.00, and furnished to the Treasurer or Secretary his 
name and post office. 

ARTICLE XV. 

Annual dues to constitute a fund for carrying out the 
objects of the Society shall be determined at the regular 
annual meetings. 

ARTICLE XVI. 

Recently admitted members shall be entitled to attend 
the meetings and share in all the rights and privileges of 
membership upon compliance with the requirements of 
Article XIV, except that no member shall vote in the 
election of an orator until one year shall have elapsed 
since his connection with the College as a student has 
terminated. 



ARTICLE XVII. 

No member of the Society shall be deprived of his 
vote by the fact that he is acting as presiding officer of 
the b 

ARTICLE XVIII. 

Charges against any officer or member of the Society 
shall be preferred in writing to the Executive Committee, 
which, after due examination, shall report its conclusions 
to the Society, for such action as the Society may think 
proper. 

A vote of four-fifths of the members present at any 
regular meeting shall be requisite for the suspension of an 
officer or the expulsion of a member ; but no member of 
the Executive Committee against whom charges shall 
have been preferred shall be entitled to act as a member 
of that committee, nor take part in its deliberations pend- 
ing the investigation of the charges against him." 

ARTICLE XIX. 

The Society may elect from its own body, each 
an Orator or Essayist for its next annual meeting, and 
such election shall always be by ballot. 

ARTICLE XX. 

It shall be the duty- of the Secretary, immediately after 
the annual meeting, to notify the Orator of his election, 
and that an address is expected from him at the next an- 
nual meeting. 



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ARTICLE XXI. 

In the event of the Orator's failure or refusal to dis- 
charge the duty assigned him, the President, the Secre- 
tary and the Treasurer shall, ex officio, constitute a com- 
mittee whose duty it shall be to supply his place by the 
election of another. 

ARTICLE XXII. 

It shall be competent for the Society, from time to 
■ time, to adopt such rules of order for its government as 
may seem proper and necessary. 

ARTICLE XXIII. 

This Constitution shall be in force from the date of its 
adoption. Any amendments thereto shall be brought 
forward in writing and read, and shall then lie over until 
the next adjourned meeting, whether that be on the same 
or on the subsequent day. It shall be then voted upon, 
and, if adopted, shall be entered in full upon the Secre- 
tary's minutes and passed by until the next annual meet- 
ing of the Society, and if then ratified by a majority of 
those actually present, shall be binding as part of this 
Constitution. But no change in the Constitution shall be 
brought forward or voted upon at any other than the 
regular annual meeting. 

ARTICLE XXIV. 

The next election of officers under this Constitution 
shall take place at the regular annual meeting of the 



Society, to be held in the month of June, eighteen hun- 
dred and eighty-one, and biennally thereafter. 

ARTICLE XXV. 

Branch associations affiliated to this Society, and duly 
organized in accordance with the Constitution thereof, 
in the principal towns and cities of the United States and 
elsewhere, will be encouraged. 



Special Notice. 

In order to facilitate the admission of mem tiers, and to 
secure a large representation of Alumni at the first an- 
nual meeting in June, 1881, the Executive Committee is 
authorized and directed to adopt such means as they may 
deem expedient for bringing this Constitution to the 
knowledge of the Alumni, and furthermore to admit to 
full membership, and to issue certificates of the same to 
all who shall have complied with the conditions required. 
JOHN F. HaNNA, Secretary, 
505 D Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 



The sending of a copy of the Constitution is equivalent 
to an invitation to join the Society. 



BRANCH ASSOCIATIONS. 



SCHEME OF CONSTITUTION. 



ARTICLE I. 
The name of this Organization shall be " The George- 
town College Alumni Association of " 

ARTICLE II. 

All Alumni of the College residing in 

and vicinity shall be eligible for membership, on applica- 
tion to the Executive Committee. 

ARTICLE III. 

The officers of the Association shall consist of a Presi- 
dent, a Vice President and Secretary, who shall be elected 
annually, by ballot, at the January meeting, and shall 
constitute an Executive Committee, who, in addition to 
their duties as officers, shall prepare business for the 
meetings. 

ARTICLE IV. 

The President and Vice President shall perform the 
duties usually appertaining to their offices. The Secre- 



tary shall, in addition to his regular duties, fill the post of 
surer. 

ARTICLE V. 
Regular meetings shall be held on the second Monday 
Evening in January, April, July and October, and special 
meetings at the call of the Executive Committee. 

ARTICLE VI. 
The assessment of dues shall be determined by the 
Association. 

ARTICLE VII. 
The association may elect annually at the regular 
meeting in April, by ballot, those delegates whose duty 
it shall be to attend the annual meeting of the Society of 
Alumni at Georgetown College, and to report to this 
Association in July. 

ARTICLE VIII. 

This constitution may be amended by a vote of two- 
thirds of the members present at any regular meeting, 
provided that notice has been given at a previous meeting. 



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